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IdleBox 2.0: What’s In It for You? Patricia Weikersheimer and Linda Gaines, PhD
Argonne National Laboratory September 22, 2016
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IdleBox Has a New, Easier-to-Use Interface!
• IdleBox is now organized by Core Resources and Specialty Resources.
• Coordinator-only tools are available through a separate sign-in at the bottom of the page.
cleancities.energy.gov/idlebox
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IdleBox Now Serves Multiple Audiences
• More intuitive organization of tools (by vehicle type rather than by communication format)
• Designed to work for both Clean Cities staff and for the general public.
• Tools anyone can use are accessible through the main page; tools for Clean Cities folks are available through a link at bottom of main page.
Bank of Utah used IdleBox materials to encourage its drive-through-window users to shut down rather than idle while waiting in line (February 2015).
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Coordinator-Only Tools Accessed Through Sign-In
Are You a Clean Cities Coordinator? IdleBox has additional resources for Clean Cities coalitions. Go to the Coalition IdleBox Resources.
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What Is IdleBox?
IdleBox is an electronic, modular toolkit to help you advance and implement the acknowledged low-hanging fruit of fuel economy—idling reduction. Modular for maximum flexibility.
Originally developed for use by Clean Cities coalitions only, it is now organized to assist anyone who wants to advance idling reduction.
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What’s in IdleBox?
• PowerPoint presentations
• Outreach letters and press releases
• Information cards, tip sheets, and pledge forms
• Poster and sign
• Idling calculator
• IdleBase (a database of idling laws)
• Technical reference materials
• And more . . .
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IdleBox Organization: Core Resources
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Core Resources: Messaging Tool Example
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Core Resources: Letter and Pledge Template Tool Example
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Core Resources: Technical Tool Example
Idle Reduction Savings Calculator
Share the Idle Reduction Savings Calculator to help fleet managers estimate their organization’s savings with idle reduction.
www.anl.gov/energy-systems/downloads/vehicle-idle-reduction-savings-worksheet
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Core Resources: Technical Tools Example, cont.
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Specialty Resources
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Specialty Resources: Personal Vehicles
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Specialty Resources: Light- and Medium-Duty Fleet Vehicles
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Specialty Resources: Heavy-Duty Vehicles
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/uploads/p
ublication/hdv_idling_2015.pdf
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Specialty Resources: Heavy-Duty Vehicles, cont.
Interactive map at
http://energy.gov/eere/vehicles/map-
state-recognition-auxiliary-power-weight-
exemption
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Specialty Resources: Emergency & Other Service Vehicles
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/uploads/publication/idling_emergency-service_vehicles.pdf
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Organizing an Idling Reduction Campaign
• Target audience
• Strategy
• Messaging
• Phasing and timing
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IdleBox Tools to Use: Press Release
Send a Press Release announcing the availability of IdleBox in your area.
• Local/regional media
• Aligned organizations
• Government entities
• Stakeholders
• Potential stakeholders
All media, not just print media
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IdleBox Tool to Use: Initial Outreach Letter
Send an Initial Outreach Letter to target organizations to introduce IdleBox and request a call or a meeting.
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IdleBox Tools to Use: Messaging Giveaways
Stickers, fact cards, and tip sheets
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IdleBox Tools to Use: Posted Messaging
• Display of signs in loading, unloading, and parking areas
• Display of posters in employee areas
▲ Sign ▲ Poster
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IdleBox Tools to Use: Pledge Forms
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IdleBox Tool: IdleBase
cleancities.energy.gov/idlebase
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IdleBox Tool: IdleBase, cont.
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National Idling Reduction Network News
http://energy.gov/eere/vehicles/vehicle-technologies-office-national-idling-reduction-network-news
To subscribe, e-mail [email protected]
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Success with IdleBox: Tips from Clean Cities Coalitions
• Start with stakeholders and build from those successes.
• Reach out to new audiences knowing that success will take
multiple “touches.” • Seek collaborative partnerships with other organizations that will
benefit. • Consider nontraditional fleets (e.g., Meals on Wheels).
• Use IdleBox to assist in ordinance development and outreach to
local media.
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IdleBox in Use
IdleBox has a range of uses, from policy development to fleet outreach to messaging to the general public.
West Palm Beach, Florida, used IdleBox materials for the launch of its no-idling policy for public utility vehicles (November 2014).
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IdleBox in Use
"At ComEd, we used the IdleBox toolkit to create posters and information cards that were used for an internal education program. Employees provided feedback that the anti-idling booth was their favorite of the day, and many said that they were going to change their behavior to limit or reduce idling of their personal vehicles after hearing about the impacts.”
–Marla Westerhold of the Environmental Department at ComEd, Illinois' largest electric utility.
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Wrapping Up
• IdleBox is not a static product. With your input, we will continue to add new tools and refine existing ones.
• Share your success stories with us! If you conduct an outreach event and perhaps have some lively photos, please share with us—we may be able to highlight your activities on the IdleBox home page!
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Watch for New IdleBox Tools
• Technical paper on economics of on-board vs. wayside technologies for long-haul heavy-duty trucks
• Compendium of idling-reduction equipment manufacturers (all vehicle types)
• Looking forward: Where do idling reduction and Smart Mobility intersect? – Smart parking will reduce time drivers
spend cruising—going nowhere—looking for a space.
– Off-hours delivery can speed deliveries and pickups in congested areas, reducing or eliminating time in queues.
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A Few Words on EPA and NHTSA’s Phase 2 GHG Rules
• The use of idle reduction (IR) technologies is one way truck manufacturers can achieve compliance with Phase 2 standards.
• Automatic engine shutdown systems (AESS) are a base requirement for any manufacturer seeking compliance through IR; additional IR equipment may be installed for more credit.
• Credits range from 1% for adjustable AESS programmed to 5 minutes to 6% for tamperproof AESS combined with a battery-powered APU. Diesel APUs with tamperproof AESS will receive a 4% credit, which is the same as that for tamperproof AESS alone.
• Beginning with MY 2024 trucks, APUs are expected to be equipped with diesel particulate filters (DPFs), as currently required in California.
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IdleChat
We welcome your questions and comments!
Work sponsored by the Clean Cities Program, U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Vehicle Technologies, to which we give our thanks.
For questions about IdleBox, contact: Patricia Weikersheimer Argonne National Laboratory [email protected] 630-252-3124 For technical questions, contact: Linda Gaines, PhD Argonne National Laboratory [email protected] 630-252-4919
